The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-04-20
HIS HONOR.
Zen billiard Takes the shot
Gun 10 ANcngc Ills
Wrongs.
Rad shooting Saves Joe Wcbtnunictt
From 'roaking. The GULL
ucst Escapes.

loud reports of shotgun which came
from the nest of negro shanties in
the alley running from Third to
Fourth streets, between Mary and
j acksOD. There are several cabins
there on each side of the alley, very
close together. a crowd of people
rushed TO the scene to see Officer
J Ohm Meth leading oil Ben Hill
lard, II young colored man, from
whom he had just taken double. .
barrel brecch loading shotgun. In .
one of the cabins Joe Mcllamlctt was
stretched out on bed. .
with blood running out .
OF II wound in his shoulder, and in the .
next house, on the same side OF the .
alley, Alvira johnson, "A colorcd WOO
man. was wounded in the shoulder I
Mack IIam.ctt said that he was shot .
b. Ben. Illlliard. lie said that white ,
Ben was in jail
BEN's WIFE
had stand at his house, and that he
and Ben had had no quarrel. That
during the evening, while he was
working Mt his bench, he was told by
some one that IA woman wanted 10 see
him. He went into Bcn's mothers
house, which adioined his and in
front of his facing the alley, while his
was farther baCk III the yard. He WINS
standing ia front of the door leading
to the alley when he SAW Ben III the
yard raise "A gun and shoot at him
he then ran out in M alley and start
ed toward Fourth street. "l}cn fol-
lowed me into the alley and callcG to
i a
Immediately after fired at me. ] was
shot, and turned around and tod him
not to shoot any more, but he stood
in the alley with the gun in his hand
working with tho trigger until Mr.
MCCihcc arrested him.
ALvIRA JOHNSON
EAid she was in her house and hoard
the two shots, but saw nothing of the
difficulty. When the second shot WAS
tired she wa1 struck by one of the
bullets.
VIE CONFESSION.
a reporter visited Zen llllard in
the jau and asked him to make IA
stat, mcnt and he made the following
contcs ion which is about the ruth
OF tn matter Almost II year ago
trad IF with negro down TO .ire-
moud FOR diamoud pin. | had no
iucH Of It's value aud WHOM returned
to i.co stuck il III my shirt and
Wor it around. The pin had been
stolen aud | was arrested and put IN
Jail charged with the crime. For
niue months land in Jail and was
finally + leased on,boud icw days
ngO. Ny first thought was for ny
wife and two little children, to whom
J was greatly attached. found they
were living with Mcdaniel, II negro
icwclor tinker, who lived
back of my MOTHER house
| learned that NV wife and II cOlorcd
man named Charlie Johnson had been
living too Intimately during my stay
in inil and That Mcllnmlctt ut whose
house my vito was living was play
Ing tho part of n procurer IN the mat
ter. had been staying NJ MCllam-
letts until could move my family
away. Every one in the houoc in
GLIDING johnson slept In the same
room, and on Monday | discovered
what believe was plot to Kill me.
Monday night slept At my sisters
house across the alley. This morn
my tried TO persuade my wife To
leave the honsc with me, but sho told
mo that she did not think NJ much OF
me as she used 10 and refused. !
told her some one had been talking to
her against me ana made her say
who il WAS and she told me Mcllam-
lett. had talk with Mcllamlctt
aud all the satisfaction got WAS TO
DO ordered OIL and told not to come
back 10 the house. started up town
ard on the way | met johnson.
told him how much was
ATTACHED TO MY WIFE
and begged him to let her alone, TO
which he replied with curses. My
patience WAS then exhausted. heard
in the town how Johnson had boosted
OF his intimacy with my wife and
that no had bulldozod me, and that he
WAS carry ing u pistol for me. | WAS
then desperate and went to Ambold's
gun store. where hired "A double
barrel shotgun and had him ill -four
cartridges with buckshot | told HIM
| WAS going hunting. ! went down
to my mothers house and sat down
on the alley fence to wait for John
son. While | was sitting there Nc
Hamlet spoke to me lie was Just
going in tho door OF my
mothers house. | don't remember
what he said, but il was something
that made me more angry, and | got
down oil the fence and started in the
house by the shed room door When
got iuto the shed room the gun
went oil accidentally, the load striking
the floor. Mcllamlett ran out of the
house into the alley and ! followed
him. He ran around the yard and
tried to get an axe which WAS there
When saw him after the axe | hol'
Tered Mt him and fired. thought
had missed him, As the shot struck
tho side of Alvira Johnson's house.
tried 10 load the gun, but did not I'M
derstand how TO work it, and Mr.
John MCGhoe came up aud arrested
me-"
After taking llilliard's confession
the reporter revisited the scene anc